Paris-Nice 2026, March 8-15

[Extinction]

Gavia 88 is a bit extreme, but nowadays race days like Les Deux Alpes 1998 get altered or canceled..

That just can't be right.

Exactly, they have gone from one extreme to the next. But it's because of Gavia events that the sport built a mystique, whereas they are without compunction killing that today.

 

[RedheadDane]

Five man up the road:

Delettre
Marsman
Thomas
Trentin
Van Den Bosche

Peloton at around 1 minute.

 

[Netserk]

peloton at the top of porte

Some names from the peloton

14:51

Armirail, Campenaerts, Vingegaard are at the helm, followed by Dani Martinez and a Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe teammate. Then, there are three Ineos Grenadiers. We can also see Georg Steinhauser's white jersey. Mathys Rondel, Ion Izagirre, Nicolya Vinokurov, Quentin Pacher, Rémi Cavagna, Tim van Dijke, Andreas Leknessund, Harold Tejada, Lenny Martinez, Matteo Vercher (...) are there as well.

 

[Rou]

Looking forward to another alien exhibition.
I enjoy close encounters of the third kind.

 

[Netserk]

greedy vingegaard

Results at Col de la Porte

14:54

1. Valentin Paret-Peintre, 10 pts
+25’’
2. Marc Soler, 5 pts
+50’’
3. Jonas Vingegaard, 3 pts
4. Bruno Armirail, 2 pts
5. Victor Campenaerts, 1 pt

 

[RedheadDane]

Looking forward to another alien exhibition.

The initial breakaway was caught.

 

[Potomac]

Wo ist Steinhauser?

edit:
Never mind I just saw netserk's post

 

[Rob5091]

Soler on the loose - look out for a red van!

 

[Netserk]

nice weather today

 

[Red Rick]

What's the difference between this and Cote de Peille?

 

[Red Rick]

Dani Martinez crashes out uphill.

 

[Rou]

Wow this was ridiculous!

 

[Tim Cahill]

This is a long way out for a relatively small gap

Martinez crash and looks a bit sore, think his teammate swerved into him

 

[tobydawq]

How unlucky can you be?

 

[Cance > TheRest]

Dani Martinez has both the worst and the best teammates at the same time.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Not the first time in this race Martínez has been neatly killed by a teammate.

 

[Red Rick]

Why did Adam Hansen not prevent this? Is he stupid?

 

[tobydawq]

Okay, at least he can ride.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Pithie(?) doesn't look around, Martinez doesn't anticipate the swerfe and get's bodychecked into the gutter. Ouch! Really unlucky, I think it's the first time I've seen something like this. Martinez also really optimistic trying to pass there I think.

 

[tobydawq]

Exactly, they have gone from one extreme to the next. But it's because of Gavia events that the sport built a mystique, whereas they are without compunction killing that today.

The Gavia stage should never have happened. It was completely irresponsible.

 

[Tim Cahill]

E3/Gent next for Tarling, who looks to be in serious condition

 

[Rou]

Tarling is stalling. Vauquelin waiting for?

 

[Netserk]

campy should have drilled it after tarling slowed down , now armirail returned and theyll wait for the last climb

 

[Red Rick]

VPP is quietly having a great Paris-Nice but I'm afraid he's gonna get absolutely nothing to show for it.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Oh C.Rodriguez is in the race, I didn't take note of him up until now.